Hi - Can ferrets get depressed? My Otis (10-month old Silver Mitt) normally pretty much ignores us unless he wants to play or we have a cheerio or a raisin box about. Yesterday he started *staring* at us with the saddest ferret face I've ever seen (in his hammocks - eyes open/sad face; in his bed - eyes open/sad face; under blankets - eyes open/sad face poking out - I don't think he closed his eyes at all). This morning same thing - very mournful ferret... Everything else seems "normal" - litter pan O.K., picked at his Iams but ate 3 cheerios, 2 raisins, a 1/2 peanut and 2 drops of ferretone. They (he has a brother, Elmo) were out to play all morning and on/off in the afternoon & evening. What's making him so sad? Could he be coming down with something? Maybe I upset him? Maybe I worry too much? Does anyone have any experience with this kind of ferret behavior? thanks, beth P.S. Nothing new or different happened to him yesterday except that they got a new toy (a dryer hose that they loved & played with for over an hour, so I don't think it traumatized him in any way) and he hissed at me for stopping him from his Spider- Ferret-climbs-up-the-wall act, so I hissed back at him (I never hissed at him before). [Posted in FML issue 0747]